A stbange story respecting a lore letter comes from Prescot. In August, 1867, a young watchmaker at Coventry addressed a letter to his finance at Prescot, but the letter was never delivered. They were married and took up their abode in the same street at Prescot as that in which the lady formerly resided, and a day or two ago both were greatly surprised at receiving from the hands of the postman a weU"*orn, crumpled and scarcely decipherable letter, which bore the date " August 24, 1867," an<J bearing the Oorentry postmark. It is scarcely needful to say that it proved to be the long lost letter, posted 11 years Inquiries resulted in elucidating the fact that the letter had all these years been concealed down a niche in the mail van, where it had inadvertently slipped after being conveyed there. The destruction of the van brought the long missing letter to light. , : ■ -■ ---I- ■-■ ■■■■■■■■■
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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3072, 19 December 1878, Page 3
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161Untitled Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3072, 19 December 1878, Page 3
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